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I would you had been with us yesterday.

To-day will serve us better; for to-day Has yesterday's experience.

We were wrong To trust the people and the light of day; Now secret night is round our enterprise, And we will be as secret.

All now rests Upon your own good swords and with yourselves.

If that the matter rested with my sword I were content—that were a soldier's part. Midnight assassins are we now!

Actions are ever judged by their success; To-morrow sees us paramount in Lucca; The doom to-night dealt on the Castrucani Will then be rightful justice

We have no choice: it is his fall or ours, And I, for one, care little if my sword Or if my dagger end an enemy.